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In the latest episode of “Everything Is Racist,” far-leftists are using images from Oprah’s interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to make even more unfounded allegations of bigotry. A leftist non-profit organization called “Slow Factory Foundation” issued a warning specifically to white people telling them they are engaging in “digital blackface” when they post memes that include black people in them.
According to the intrepid individuals at the Slow Factory Foundation, “digital blackface” is “an online phenomenon where white and non-black people share GIFs and photos of black folks to express emotion or reaction to anything happening on the internet.”
Oprah Winfrey memes dubbed digital blackface after Meghan and Harry interview
13 Mar, 2021 08:16 PM
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We were living for Oprah s reactions during her historic sit-down with Harry and Meghan - but maybe sharing the memes isn t helping, an activist group suggests. Photo / CBS
We were living for Oprah s reactions during her historic sit-down with Harry and Meghan - but maybe sharing the memes isn t helping, an activist group suggests. Photo / CBS
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By: Adrianna Zappavigna
Social media users are being warned not to share Oprah reaction memes from her historic chat with the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex, as they re engaging in digital blackface .
Longreads Best of 2020: Arts and Culture
All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad.
All through December, we’re featuring Longreads’ Best of 2020. In an unprecedented, strange, and chaotic year, we’ve leaned on writers’ reflections and commentaries on the world around us to help us make sense of moments, of our lives. We revisited a wide range of arts and culture stories featured by the team this year and selected eight favorites that resonated with us.
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I’ve always loved how Teju Cole observes and moves through our world: a flâneur of modern life, always with a notebook or a camera in hand. Here, we follow Cole on a pilgrimage to Italy as he chases the life of Caravaggio, an artist (and fugitive and murderer) whose emotionally charged, often violent scenes and chiaroscuro technique I studied closely in my AP Art History class. In Rome and Milan, Cole revisits Caravaggio’s paintings “to learn the truth about doom” to sit